The key answer of exercise 9
The key to exercise solutions in chapter 2.1 - The best mistakes for the textbook Speakout Advanced Plus - Students' Book with authors Frances Eales and Steve Oakes from Pearson Education
Question
- Read texts 1-8 below. where does each one come from? How can you tell?
- Underline the idioms expressing feeling in each of the texts.
- Match comments a)-h) with the idioms.
Answer
a)
- Text or email. Informal, similar to spoken English, e.g. use of I, contractions (can't make it today), informal vocabulary (can't make it) but the use of 'etc.' wouldn't fit with a spoken exchange such as a phone call.
- Written English. Short well-formed sentences. Probably romantic fiction because of the content.
- Written English - a letter / email / posting to a problem page / website. Use of I, contracted forms, and appropriate content. It could also be spoken English with someone relating a problem.
- Newspaper or website news. The piece is written in a factual way, in the present, and includes a quote from someone in the story, which is typical of this kind of report.
- Spoken (or email) account of a situation. It's written with I. Neutral style.
- Written narrative, perhaps from a novel. It is written about he and has well-formed and quite long sentences, although these are not complex.
- Lyrics to a song. It has short lines, rhymes and has the content of a typical pop song.
- A western novel. Shown by content and vocabulary (horseback, cowboy, gun) and use of direct speech typical of the genre.
b)
brackets show part of the idiom that might change
- (I'm) a bit under the weather
- (It) made her flesh crawl.
- (I'm) coming apart at the seams
- (Management) has (its) back to the wall,
- (I felt) like a fish out of water.
- (His) blood ran cold
- ('m) on cloud nine,
- (Got) a chip on (your) shoulder
c)
- 1
- 6
- 7
- 8
- 2
- 3
- 4
- 5
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